Hizb Chief Hails Vajpayee's Speech

3 May 2003News Network International

Muzaffarabad: Chief of Hizbul Mujahideen Syed Sallahuddin Saturday termed the speech of Indian Prime Minister Attal Beharai Vajpayee before the Lok Sabha as a good will gesture. 'The speech gives ray of hope, provided Vajpayee dose not repeat what his ancestral have been doing in the past,' the Hizb supremo said in a press statement. The Hiz leader said the Kashmir issue was a flashpoint which could deteriorate peace in the volitile South Asian region and the worldwide. The lingered and unresolved Kashmir problems has engulfed tremendous funds of both India and Pakistan rendering their masses in a quagmire of poverty and illiteracy.